Some kitchen habits have lingered for decades, but that doesn't mean they work. These are the timeworn boomer cooking ...

New work from Georgia Tech is showing how a simple glass of wine can serve as a powerful gateway for understanding advanced ...

Using gold flakes, salt water, and light, scientists have made the universe’s invisible binding forces visible in color. The ...

Matthew Fuchter, who develops novel molecular systems at the University of Oxford, calls this “an exciting study [that] ...

From table salt to snowflakes, and from gemstones to diamonds—we encounter crystals everywhere in daily life, usually cubic ...

Sometimes the coolest science experiments are also the simplest. With just a few basic components, this setup produces a ...

Scientists have cracked a key mystery behind spider silk’s legendary strength and flexibility. They discovered that tiny ...

Researchers in South Korea have designed a polymer composite that keeps its structure even near 1,000 °C flames, potentially ...

A centuries-old practice of dropping frogs into milk turns out to have scientific truth, amphibian antimicrobial compounds ...

Just before the intended launch of India’s Chandrayaan 2 mission to the moon’s south pole, a “technical snag” with the rocket caused it to be called off for now ...

Plants make chemical weapons to protect themselves, and many of these compounds have become vital to human medicine. Researchers found that one powerful plant chemical is produced using a gene that ...

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